Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-29
She Brings Up the Rear in the Yacht
Race in Good Order.

She Brings Up the Rear in the Yacht
Race in Good Order.
QUEENSTOWN, March 2Sth.-The Daunt-
less passed the old head of the Kinsale at
3:15 o'clock this afternoon, and it will
probably take her two hours 10 reach the
finishing line and Roche's Point. A tug
has left Queenstown with the press
correspondents TO meet the Dauntless and
accompany her to Roche's Point.
SAFELY AT ANCHOR.
QUEENSTOWN, March 2Sth-The Daunt-
less crossed the finishing line at 6:45
o'clock. Her actual time on the passage
was 16 days, l hour, 43 minutes and 10
seconds. She has been towed into the har-
Dor, and is now safely at anchor.
The officers of the Coronet and other
yachts ale greatly pleased with the result
OF the race, and say it has shown admira-
BILE qualities in both the yachts. With the
difference in tonnage and length of the
yachts, and the extraordinary weather
which prevailed during the voyage, the
Dauntless is thought to have done as well
as her competitor. The friends of both
yachts will be entertained by the Ameri-
can Royal Cork Yacht Club.
INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE
QUEENSTOWN, March 2Sth.-All on board
the Dauntless are well, and the yacht is in
as good shape as when she left Owls Head
She experienced about the same weather
as the Coronet 4 comparison of the logs
of the two racers indicates that they fol-
lowed about the same course. Caldwell
Colt, the owner of the Dauntless, says that he
encountered more wind than he bargained
for. For sixteen hours his boat was obliged
to lay TO. Once she scudded before the gale
under bare poles. When last seen from
the deck of the Coronet, on the evening Of
the start, the Dauntless was steering south
southeast, but during the night her course
was changed to northeast by east. On
March 10th she ran into a heavy cross sea,
with a strong southeast gale. Oil was used
with good effect to break the waves, and
the yacht weathered her first storm well.
The next day the sea was even more turbu-
lent and the waves broke over her deck in
rapid succession, wrenching the Yacht so
much that she began to leak slightly. The
temperature of both the air and water on
the afternoon of the 18th indicated that ice
was in close proximity, and it became
necessary to use great precaution in run
ming. AT midnight the thermometer regis
tered 44o and the water $50. An hour
later the temperature was 400, and the
water $50. AT o'clock on the night of
the 18th, when a heavy gale was blowing
from the southwest; a smooth stretch of
water was run into. Its temperature indi-
Gated that there were icebergs near. There
was quantity of solid ice to the leeward
and very near. On the 20th, DIST and 22d
there were strong gales. 1t was on the last
of those days that the Dauntless hove to.
Since last Thursday the weather was fine.
On the 25th run of 32S miles was made,
which is said to be the best ever made BY a
yacht on the Atlantic ocean.
During one of the severe gales two men
were washed from the wheel, and were
only saved from going overheard by the
lashings with which they were bound.
THE SAILORS REvEL N ALE, cLARET AND
CHAMPAGNE.
During the storm of the 23d the cockpit
was, on several occasions, filled with water,
and altogether it was a perilous time for
the yacht. On the 9th the sea was ter
ribly rough, and the boat rolled so badly
that the water tank burst. The seamen
were consequently put on the smallest pos
sible allowance of water but later on they
were plentifully supplied with ale and
claret, and ultimately with champagne, in
stead Of water. All on board arrived in